Peter Malinauskas says he strongly considered cancelling funding to Adelaide Writers' Week amid controversy over an author's views on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but his overriding consideration was to 'ensure freedom of speech isn't compromised by cancel culture'.
abc.net.au/news/cancelling-writers-week-funding-compared-to-putin-russia-regime/102048542South Australia's premier said he strongly considered pulling state government funding from Adelaide Writers' Week amid controversy over its line-up, but decided against such a move because it would have been a step "down a path to Putin's Russia".
Writers' Week gets underway tomorrow but was formally launched last night by Mr Malinauskas, who said he had made it clear to organisers that he would not be attending certain sessions and any "that are associated with anti-Semitism". Ukrainian authors Kateryna Babkina, Olesya Khromeychuk and Maria Tumarkin have all withdrawn from the event.
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